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Patented 0-ctf3, I899.

No. 634MB.

' M. W. NEUENS.

WINDOW.

(Application flhd Jam 6, 1899.) (No Model.) {Shanty-Sheet ms uunms PETER; 00.. ma'mufua, mar-1mm, m a

' Patented 0113,1899. M. W. NEUENS.

No. 634,0l9.

WIN DOW.

(Application filed Jun. 6, 1899.}

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(No Model.)

THE amms PETERS ca. PHuYo-u'm NITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

MICHAEL W. NEUENS, OF PORT WASI-IINGTON, WISCONSIN, nssieuon or ONE-HALF TO REINHARD STELLING, or SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming an of Letters that No. ee4,o1e, dated October 3, 1899. Application filed January 6, 1899. Serial No. 701,824. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, MICHAEL W. NEunNs, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Port Washington, in the county of Ozaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to simplify and cheapen the'construction of windows or ganized to permit of the sash being swung out from the frame without inj ury to the woodwork of either; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth with reference to theaccom-panyingdrawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents an inside elevation of a window embodying my improvements having parts thereof broken away and in section; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the window having its sash in normal position; Fig. 3, a similar view illustrating the lower sash swung out from the frame; Fig. 4, a horizontal section of said window, indicated by line 4: 4 inthe first figure, both sash being run down and the inner one swung out; Fig. 5,,a detail elevation, partly in section and illustrating a removable portion of a parting-stop partly broken away to show a spring that bears upon the same; Fig. 6, a detail perspective view of a portion of a sash; Fig. 7, a detail sectional view of a portion of a sash and removable cord attachment; Fig. 8, a detail elevation of the parts shown in the preceding figure, and Fig. 9 a detail View illustrating the means forpreventing loss of set-screws embodied in my improvements.

Referring byletter to the drawings, A B represent the stiles, O the head,'and D the sill, of a window-frame that is of ordinary construction, except in 'matters of detail hereinafter specified.

The vertically-adjustable sash E F in the frame is herein shown in connection with weight cordsg but various means may be employed for holding said sash in adjusted po sition. r

The frame-stile A has a lower longitudinal recess containing a flat spring G, having its inner lower end made fast to said stile. Up-

per and lower castings HI are secured in the stile-recess by screws, and the holding-screw for the upper casting also serves as, a pivot for a turn-plate J, the latter and said castings flush with the parting-rail on the stile, and this parting-rail has a removable section K, notched at its lower end to fit under an upwardly-extending lip of the lower casting, its

upper end being also notched at its front to come under the turn-plate, the lower end of the permanent portion of said parting-rail being also notched to accommodate said turnplate. At its rear the upper end of the removable parting-rail section is cut away to accommodate the free portion of spring G, and

the latter operates by expansive tendency to tilt said parting-rail section out of the framestile recess when the turn-plate is swung far enough out of vertical position. Conntersunk in frame-stile A are metal plates 1), having tapped apertures for engagement of set-screws c, that also engage the inside sash-stop L, pertaining to said frame-stile, the screw-apertures in this sash-stop being of sufficient area to permit lateral adjustment of the same for the purpose of preventing rattle on the part of the sash. The thread portion of each screw-shank is of greater diameter than the remainder thereof, and arranged on the nonthreaded portion of the shank, to oppose the inner side of the corresponding sash-stop L, is a spring-wire clip (I, that prevents loss of said screw after its disengagement with a tapped frame-stile plate.

That portion M of the window-frame casing adjacent to the frame-stile A is provided with a notched outwardly-extending plate M for the purpose hereinafter specified, and the removable section K of the parting-rail of said frame-stile is longer than the frame of either sash.

It is especially desirable when counterweights are used with the sash E F that ends of the connecting-cords be readily removable from the sash-stiles that are normally adjacent to frame-stile A. Therefore the sash end of each cord may be turned on a holte, that extends through an aperture in the head of Y other apertures in said shollhcad and bent down against the turn of the cord under the bolt-head. The shell and its spring-yoke engage the usual cord-knot recess of a sash-stile, and the expansive tendency of said yoke operates to hold the removable sash-cord attachment snug in place. 7

.The stile B of the window-frame is provided with a detachable and adj ustable stop L, held in place by the same means as those described in connection with sash-stop L aforesaid, and the lower portion of sash-stop L is recessed to engage the butts of a pair of hinges, each of the latter having a leaf P thereof mortised in said frame-stile and held thereto byscrews. Each hinge-leaf P is provided with a central recess, in which a fiat spring h is secured to bear against the angularly-notched butt portion of a leaf Q, that has mortise engagement with a longer leaf R, the latter being provided with an outer rib 'i, that flushes with the parting-rail S on stile B of the windowframe. Each of the hinge-leaves Q R is also provided with a dovetail ribj for the engagement of a correspondingly-dovetailed vertical groove in a casting mortised in a sash-stile and made fast thereto.

The hinges are at suitable intervals one above another within a distance less than the length of the sash-stiles. The upper hingeengaging sash-stile castings T have their vertical grooves closed at the upper ends; but

' the vertical grooves of sash-stile castings T are necessarily open at both ends to permit adjustment of the sash in the window-frame. Above the closed upper ends of the grooves therein the castings T are apertured to correspond with the recesses formed in the sashstiles for knots at the outer ends of cords that connect with counterweights for the sash.

The leaves Q of the hinges swing out independent of the other leaves R, and the former leaves are for engagement with the castings mortised in a stile of the lower sash, the castings mortised in a stile of the upper sash bein g engageable with said other leaves. However, it is practical to swing both leaves Q R of the hinges at the same time.

The hinge-leaves Q swing out against the resistance of the springs it until their buttnotches clear the same, and these springs react to insure full return of the aforesaid leaves when the latter are swung into normal position.

To swing out the sash, the latter is adjusted to stand clear of the inside stop U on the frame-sill D, their stile-castings being en- .gaged with the ribs j of hinge-leaves Q R, af-

ter which the inside sash-stop L is removed.

The lower sash is now free to be swung out, and if it be counterweighted the cord at the side farthest from the hinges is detached, the notched casing-plate M serving as a catch for said cord. The lower sash having been swung out, the parting-rail section K is detached from the adjacent frame-stile to permit swinging out of the upper sash, the counterweight cord farthest from the hinges of the latter sash being then detached and connected to the aforesaid notched casing-plate.

From the foregoing it is evident that either or both sash may be swung to stand at a right angle to the window-frame, and the counterweight-cords, if any, being detached from the hinge-stiles of said sash the latter may be readily removed should this operation be desirable.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a window-frame having a stile thereof provided with a lower longitudinal recess, upper and lower castings secured in the recess to flush with the partingrailpertaining to the stile, a section of this parting-rail having detachable engagement with said f rame-stile recess and lower casting therein, and a turn-plate on the upper casting engageable with notched ends of the permanent and detachable parting-rail sections.

2. The combination of a window-frame having a stile thereof provided with a lower longitudinal recess, upper and lower castings secured in the recess to flush with the partingrail pertaining to the stile, a section of the parting-rail having-detachable engagement with said frame-stile recess and lower casting therein, a turn-plate on the upper casting engageable with notched ends of the permanent and detachable parting-rail sections, and a spring secured in the upper portion of the aforesaid recess to have expansive tendency against said detachable parting-rail section.

3. The combination of a window-frame having one stile thereof apertured and tapped plates connected to both stiles of the frame, inside sash-stops provided with set-screws having enlarged threaded portions of their shanks engageable with said plates, and a spring-wire clip on the non-threaded shank portion of each screw in opposition to the inner side of the sash-stop.

4. The combination of a window-frame having one stile thereof provided with a detachable section of parting-rail, inside sash-stops having readilydetachable connection with both frame-stiles, hinges having leaves thereof in rigid connection with the frame-stile opposite the one having the detachable parting-rail section, each hinge having the swing portion thereof in the form of two verticallyribbed leaves one of which closes within the other, and the window sash having stiles thereof provided with longitudinally-grooved castings engageable with ribs of the aforesaid hinge-leaves.

5. Thecombination ofawindow-framehaving one stile thereof provided with a detachable section of parting-rail, inside sash-stops having readily-detachable connection with both frame-stiles, hinges having leaves thereof in rigid connection with the frame-stile opposite the one having the detachable parting-rail section, each hinge having the swing portion thereof in' the form of two verticallyribbed leaves one of which closes within the other and has its butt portion angularly notched; a fiat spring seated in a recess of the stationary leaf of each hinge to operatein conjunction with the angularly-notehed leaf-butt, and the window-sash having stiles thereof provided with longitudinally-grooved castings engageable with ribs of the aforesaid swing-leaves of the hinges.

stile, and other swing-leaves that close one within another, a guide-rib on each swingleaf and a parting-rail rib on the larger, of

these swing-leaves; the Window-sash, and grooved castings fitted to sash-stiles for engagement with guide-ribson the swing-leaves of the hinges.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Port ashington, in the county of Ozankee and State of Wisconsin, this 24th day of August, A. D. 1897, in the presence of two Witnesses.

: MICHAEL WV. NEUENS. Witnesses: OTTO NEUENS,

HARRY VAN DER VooRT. 

